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Sgolds, Re: Face it: The primary reason for the P4 queue design was to come up with a high MHz alternative to Athlon because they thought the public didn't know the difference.

LOL, you call yourself an engineer? Athlon debuted in 1999, while Intel came out with Pentium 4 one year later. Your telling me that Intel redesigned the Pentium 4 core to compete with a brand new competitor's processor, and brought it to market in just one year? I think you have to suspend more than a little faith to buy that conspiracy theory.

Re: I know the P4 was in design longer than that, I'm talking about the commitment to actually manufacture it. P4 was a backup design for the desktop at a time when Intel wanted to - wisely - hedge their bets against Itanium delays

LOL, this is even more ridiculous than the first statement. How many companies do you know that will design an entirely new product micro-architecture (at the expense of hundreds of millions in R&D), just to use it as a hedge? Do you think the shareholders would appreciate that? Oh, ok, bring up the example of IBM has a hedge-meister, and tell me that Intel had just as much money to burn in the late 90s. Sure. Tell me that Intel had Pentium 4 on the wings - just *in case* AMD might come up with a high megahertz design so that they could trump them. Tell me that if there was no Athlon, that Intel would try to put Itanium on the desktop and cancel the Pentium 4 design....

Sheesh, only a 'Droid would believe these fantasies.